LEARNING FROM ABROAD:THE ROLE OF POLICY TRANSFER IN CONTEMPORARY POLICY MAKING

HOW RESEARCH SHAPES POLICY: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

HOW RESEARCH SHAPES POLICY: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

HOW RESEARCH SHAPES POLICY: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

HOW RESEARCH SHAPES POLICY: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

LEARNING FROM ABROAD:THE ROLE OF POLICY TRANSFER IN CONTEMPORARY POLICY MAKING

Three schools come together

Videography- Psychology- Philosophy

Justice must be done; and must be seen to be done

Policy makers should possess diversified perspective

from history to philosophy from social to tactical

‘one best way’ is not there; neither one cloth fits all

rather it’s all about equifinality

LEARNING FROM ABROAD:THE ROLE OF POLICY TRANSFER IN CONTEMPORARY POLICY MAKING

Blind Following leads to nowhere other than ‘impasse’

Think globally; act locally

Foreign Policy should be contextualized

Policy makers have to be observer rather than ‘sheer watcher’

We see what we expect to see ; don’t see what we don’t

expect to see

WHAT WE GONNA COVER

Poll tax – Britain

Age limit entering civil service: worth saying what BD things today IND thinks

tomorrow

We can’t think beyond our geography.

wind run turbine for power generation not feasible here in BD

Policy includes ‘what to do’ more importantly ‘what not to do’

Gov encourage Start up in IT sector. reluctant to impose VAT on e-commerce

considering fledging status- Learned from India

LEARNING FROM ABROAD:THE ROLE OF POLICY TRANSFER IN CONTEMPORARY POLICY MAKING

Ending Note Trial & Error is one of the ethos of development

administration Shifting to new policy not necessarily means that

last one was least one “I love my love” (Focal)